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"... A bread and circuses display to blunt the edges of our squalor / And debase our discontent."

"... have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. One must live in the question."

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

-Jorge Luis Borges

"But some days I feel as old as the crumbling bones that fill the catacombs of my lonely heart."

"... love, that rooster that feeds on graveyard weeds..."

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"One knows a great deal if one knows how to savor things."

"We had created a sprawling, rotting, festering urban ecosystem of video outlets and airfare price wars and happy, smiley-faced concrete clowns handing out burgers at drive-through windows, and everything was so tangled up in everything else that if you attacked one thing, you attacked everything."

"... the fate of all books, with no exceptions, is that sooner or later they are used for kindling."